Protest and Power

Images of protest and talk of power permeate our contemporary social world. But what does it mean to encounter these ideas from an anarchist perspective? Often dismissed as either a utopian fantasy or vilified as the end of civilization as we know it, is there something we can perhaps learn from anarchist ideas about protest and power? How might this affect how we understand current protest movements? Moving from collective kitchens hosted in squats to protests in the streets, in this talk Sarah Fessenden will take you through her ethnographic research with an anarchist-inspired protest organization, Food Not Bombs. She will describe what anarchism sometimes looks like on the ground and consider both how it has inspired contemporary protest organization and tactics and how it can be used to understand power more generally. Sarah Fessenden is a KPU Anthropology instructor. She is a sociocultural anthropologist whose current research looks at the social and cultural construction of hunger in Canada and whose theoretical research has focused primarily on radical social movement organizing. Sarah has written and published on counterculture, radical organizing and activism, and foodwaste.

DATE: TIME: Mon, Mar 29 10:00 – 11:30 am

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ONLINE FEE: $15 GUEST PRESENTER: Sarah Fessenden FACILITATOR: Helen Christiansen 604.536.8134, helenjeanchr@gmail.com REGISTER BY: Mon, Mar 22 TO REGISTER: See page 36